In between..

..is where most articles place the skippers, i.e. in between butterflies and moths. A very phenotypic way of cataloging them! The skippers are diurnal as the butterflies, have got clubbed antenna-ends like them and hold the wings upright (although in a different position, with their front wing held at a different angle to the back wing) like them, but they are furry like moths. The flight of the skipper is less erratic than that of the butterflies, earning the family the name skipper, a funny name for an insect! This (controversial) placement of skippers in between moths and butterflies has caught the attention of scientist with access to modern sequencing labs and hopefully soon the gap in our knowledge of "time-calibrated higher-level phylogeny" of the group will shed a light on its evolutionary past. There are already some articles out there that construct the tree of life for Hesperiidae family (skippers), but I couldn't find articles that puts their phylogeny in relation to that of butterflies and moths. I'm sure that in this moment, some scientist are sweating over huge sequencing datasets trying to answer exactly that question!